From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263827AbUF0V1n (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:27:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264412AbUF0V1m (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:27:42 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38870 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263827AbUF0V1l (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:27:41 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 14:26:28 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Oliver Neukum Cc: zaitcev@redhat.com, greg@kroah.com, arjanv@redhat.com, jgarzik@redhat.com, tburke@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net, david-b@pacbell.net Subject: Re: drivers/block/ub.c Message-Id: <20040627142628.34b60c82.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <200406271242.22490.oliver@neukum.org> References: <20040626130645.55be13ce@lembas.zaitcev.lan> <200406270631.41102.oliver@neukum.org> <20040626233423.7d4c1189.davem@redhat.com> <200406271242.22490.oliver@neukum.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:42:21 +0200 Oliver Neukum wrote: > OK, then it shouldn't be used in this case. However, shouldn't we have > an attribute like __nopadding__ which does exactly that? It would have the same effect. CPU structure layout rules don't pack (or using other words, add padding) exactly in cases where it is needed to obtain the necessary alignment.